RoboFit2016 - 2019
Over the course of the project RoboFit, classes from all ages visit the institute to listen to a lecture about robotics, to try out robot navigation during a brief workshop, and to see a demo of our robots Romeo or Pepper. Read more →
AssistMe2015 - 2017
AssistMe develops and evaluates during a user-centered multistage process innovative means of interaction for programming and usage of a robot-based assistive system. Central topic is the integration of users in the concept development where the interaction paradigms are defined as well as in the evaluation stage of the developed technology. Read more →
ALOOF2015 - 2017
ALOOF will enable robots to tap into the ever-growing amount of knowledge available on the Web, by learning from there about the meaning of previously unseen objects, expressed in a form that makes them applicable when acting in situated environments. By searching the Web, robots will be able to learn about new objects, their specific properties, where they might be stored and so forth. Read more →
ER4STEM2015 - 2018
Many children lose their natural curiosity for how things function and interrelate to each other along the way into their lives as young adults. The Educational Robotics for STEM (ER4STEM) project aims to turn curious young children into young adults passionate about science and technology with a hands-on use case: robotics. Read more →
FLOBOT2015 - 2017
Supermarkets, as well as other industrial, commercial, civil and service premises have to be cleaned daily and during the day. FLOBOT addresses these demands by integrating existing research results into a professional floor washing robot platform for wide area industrial, civil and commercial premises. Read more →
Crazy Robots2014 - 2015
Crazy Robots is a science communication project of the Vision for Robotics Group, funded by FWF Wissenschaftsfonds. The project aims to teach school students robotics from the product development perspective and addresses all students (not only the ones interested in Science, Technology Engineering, and Mathematics – STEM). Read more →
SQUIRREL2014 - 2018
Clutter in an open world is a challenge for many aspects of robotic systems, especially for autonomous robots deployed in unstructured domestic settings, affecting navigation, manipulation, vision, human robot interaction and planning. Squirrel addresses these issues by actively controlling clutter and incrementally learning to extend the robot’s capabilities while doing so. Read more →
Argonauts2014 - 2016
Total has launched in December 2013, the ARGOS Challenge (Autonomous Robot for Gas and Oil Sites), an international robotics competition designed to foster the development of a new generation of autonomous robots adapted to the oil and gas sites. These robots will be capable of performing inspection tasks, detecting anomalies and intervening in emergency situations. Read more →
FRANC2013 - 2015
While in modern agriculture increasingly powerful complex machines with advanced technology are used organic farming is characterized by multiple manual tasks. The project FRANC develops and builds an autonomous vehicle which can be used especially in organic farming. Read more →
STRANDS2013 - 2017
STRANDS aims to enable a robot to achieve robust and intelligent behaviour in human environments through adaptation to, and the exploitation of, long-term experience. Our approach is based on understanding 3D space and how it changes over time, from milliseconds to months. Read more →